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Communism Expectations of Economic Security – “Berlin: The Downfall 1945” – Antony Beevor

April 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Communism, Democracy, Economics, WW2

Red Army soldiers were astonished to see wirelesses in so many houses. The evidence of their eyes strongly implied that the Soviet Union was perhaps not quite the workers’ and peasants’ paradise they had been told. East Prussian farms produced a mixture of bewilderment, jealousy, admiration and anger which alarmed political officers.

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